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how many times, I wonder, has it been mentioned in this forum, not to mess with custom kernels... now, I suppose, if we help you boot your system, you will discover (quite strangely.. ), that injection is not working, etc. Then again, the same questions, same answers.

I'm not speaking for others, I'm sure they will chime in. For my 2 cents:

No, they are not saying not to mess with the linux kernel. What they are saying is that backtrack is a customized kernel with many changes, patches and modifications made to get it to work the way it does. Then they take that modified kernel and turn it into a live linux distro (which has it's own complications and difficulties). Backtrack is highly specialized and modifying the kernel will break many things that the BT devs have worked very hard to tweak, and as such they don't recommend you try to do so. They also don't want to be inundated with questions about "how to fix my custom kernel mod". Basically they don't support individual users modifying their changes and then asking them to fix it for them.

You (and anybody else) are welcome (and as a linux user myself) encouraged, to build your own custom kernel in linux on whatever distro you would like. I recommend gentoo. This is a great learning experience and your patience and thorough searching for answers will be a great reward in and of itself, when after you have finally solved your own mistakes, you will be able to successfully boot into your own custom linux distro.

I wish you luck and success in your learning, just don't expect this forum to fix your own mistakes concerning something that the forum has recommended against several times.

I'm not speaking for others, I'm sure they will chime in. For my 2 cents:

No, they are not saying not to mess with the linux kernel. What they are saying is that backtrack is a customized kernel with many changes, patches and modifications made to get it to work the way it does. Then they take that modified kernel and turn it into a live linux distro (which has it's own complications and difficulties). Backtrack is highly specialized and modifying the kernel will break many things that the BT devs have worked very hard to tweak, and as such they don't recommend you try to do so. They also don't want to be inundated with questions about "how to fix my custom kernel mod". Basically they don't support individual users modifying their changes and then asking them to fix it for them.

You (and anybody else) are welcome (and as a linux user myself) encouraged, to build your own custom kernel in linux on whatever distro you would like. I recommend gentoo. This is a great learning experience and your patience and thorough searching for answers will be a great reward in and of itself, when after you have finally solved your own mistakes, you will be able to successfully boot into your own custom linux distro.

I wish you luck and success in your learning, just don't expect this forum to fix your own mistakes concerning something that the forum has recommended against several times.

I could not have said this better myself. From now on all kernel question will be directed to this post

I could not have said this better myself. From now on all kernel question will be directed to this post

Indeed, and the second half of the post in regards to the satisfaction one gets from building a custom anything is a reward in and of itself. I had such a headache from building my gentoo laptop but after it was over, well the headached only letup a bit (if you know gentoo you get that) but the learning experience is worth every bit.